Bedros Kapamajian

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Bedros Kapamajian (Armenian: Պետրոս Քափամաճեան) was born on 1840 and assassinated in 1912. Kapamajian was an Ottoman citizen of Armenian origin who was elected mayor of Van, Turkey.[1] With the Second Constitutional Era of the Ottoman Empire, Bedros Kapamajian was elected the mayor of Van on February 2, 1908.[2] Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Tashnaks) labeled Kapamajian as a puppet of the Ottoman Government.[3] Bedros Kapamajian was assassinated on 1912.[4] He was assassinated by his own son, member of ARF from Van, because of not supporting the ARF.[5]


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  1. ^ By Y. G. Çark, (1953), "Armenians working for the Ottoman Empire between 1453-1953 (tr:Türk devleti hizmetinde Ermeniler, 1453-1953) 302 pages.
  2. ^ BOA İrade Taltifat, 1325. Za/111.
  3. ^ By Altan Deliorman, "Türklere Karsi Ermeni Komitecileri" Published 1973 Boğaziçi Basım ve Yayınevi 335 pages
  4. ^ Hasan Oktay, the assassinated Ottoman governors (tr:"Valiler Eskiden de Hedefti"), published in Tarih ve Medeniyet, Istanbul 1999, volume 62, pp. 60-63.
  5. ^ Hüseyin Çelik, ‘The 1915 Armenian Revolt in Van: Eyewitness Testimony’,in The Armenians in the Late Ottoman Period, pp. 91-92.